Fashioning Brazil: National Identity and the Politics of Globalisation in Contemporary Brazilian Fashion Photography

This article questions: how can we define contemporary Brazilian fashion photography? It's important not to reduce the rich and diverse output of a number of key practitioners to any stereotypical understandings of the geographical region in question, but rather to situate them within the context of a globalised world that is continually changing. Many of these image-makers are living and working between Brazil, Europe and the United States; their work necessarily evades straightforward classification or categorisation, but opens up a fruitful dialogue between the national and the international.